Robot teaching Japanese children calligraphy

Wonder if the 'master' instinctively digs his nose on occasion. What a laugh if this 'line of code' was left in the program accidentally!

Calligraphy paper is a type of washi, and is not made from rice, but kozo (paper mulberry). The use of "rice paper" tells me the writer of this article doesn't know much about Japan.

Each time the students produce near perfect replicas.

Sorry, but that's not art. The robot may help kids in basic technique, but master calligraphers are not robots. Great calligraphers express their own unique humanity in their work. That's just as important as being 'correct'.

“When you take the brush, it’s as if the master himself is holding your hand and guiding you,”

Sorry, but NOPE.

a perfect record of what a master did ONE SINGLE TIME, further more in the past.

Things are alway changing, and alive and breathing. The ability to do an art involves a deep sense of a lot of things that simply cannot be transmitted by simply copying one pattern that the robot has memorized. I believe this kind of practice is as likely to make mastery and true sensitivity harder for the student to acquire, as it is to do anything else.

"“When you take the brush, it’s as if the master himself is holding your hand and guiding you,”

Ummm... minus the master.

Learning is not memorization. I fear this will diminish the respect of mastery, which I personally find very soothing